Monday, March 3, 2014

Tuna Ring with Tuna Sauce

Betty Crocker's Pantry Jubilee (1958)
 "New Bisquick Dish with an elegant air!" proclaims Betty Crocker's 1958 newspaper insert, "Pantry Jubilee".  Then comes the indoctrinating, almost-menacing afterthought:

BISQUICK'S GOING TO HELP YOU MORE THAN ANY OTHER PACKAGE IN THE GROCERY STORE

Well, I don't know about that - I mean, Jell-O and Cool Whip must rate up there somewhere - but Bisquick is awfully handy to have around the house,

 BECAUSE BISQUICK'S SPUN TOGETHER IN A WAY NOBODY CAN MANAGE AT HOME

Do you hear me?  NOBODY 

Not to be confused with Ring-Around-The-Tuna, today's Tuna Ring contains not a stitch of gelatin:

2 cups Bisquick
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1/3 cup water
3 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
two 7-oz. cans tuna, flaked with oil
1/2 cup grated sharp cheese
1 tbsp. chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped pimiento
1/3 cup chopped celery

Heat over to 400 degrees (moderately hot). Grease a 9" square baking dish or 11 x 7" baking dish or 9" ring mold. Blend Bisquick, milk, water, eggs, salt and pepper. Beat vigorously 30 seconds. Mix ion 1 1/2 cans tuna, 1/4 cup cheese, onion, pimiento and celery. Spread batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup cheese over top. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Serve with Tuna Sauce in center. 8 servings.
Tuna Sauce: Gradually add 1 cup evaporated milk and 2/3 cup water to 2 tbsp. Bisquick, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/4 tsp. pepper and remaining 1/2 can tuna. Heat and serve.

It may surprise you to learn that, though I love eating chowders and other creamed seafood dishes, the actual act of creating said dishes turns my stomach a little. Notwithstanding the documented fact that I will eat anything that's suspended in lemon gelatin. 

Plus, "Tuna Sauce".

So, I didn't have high hopes for this recipe. But...
Our Rating: Zero Screaming Husbands!
(all dishes are rated from one to five Screaming Husbands. One Screaming Husband equals a happy home where all problems are solved during cocktail hour. Five Screaming Husbands signals the beginning of divorce proceedings.)

2 comments:

  1. mmmmm. bisquick. just in time for shrove tuesday! (although hubs just said "hold the tuna" when I offered this instead of pancakes...not as adventurous an eater as yours, obvs.)

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  2. I'm lazy. Will the tuna ring suffer without the tuna sauce?

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